Southland (tv program)

At the center of Diana Son's drama "Stop Kiss" is a brutal attack on two women locked in an embrace. The scene is reported rather than graphically dramatized, but the violence clarifies so much about the tentative trajectory of this tenderly observed love story.

Produced at New York's Public Theater in 1998 in a memorable premiere starring Jessica Hecht and Sandra Oh, the play is clearly set in New York in the late 1990s. But though there are many markers of the period (at one point a Tower Records bag makes a ghostly appearance), the essential storyline doesn't feel dated in the least.

Making a winning directorial debut at Pasadena Playhouse, associate artistic...

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